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Enabling Exhibition

The Work of
Minimaforms puts forward a series of direct questions: Can architecture
facilitate new forms of communication? Can design enable? Can we
construct models of interaction as forms of conversations? Using design
as a mode of enquiry, the projects of experimental architecture and
design studio Minimaforms explore these questions with the aim of
opening up the discussion.

Founded in 2002 by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos,
Minimaforms explores ideas of social and material interaction. The
exhibition shows recent work including the (War Veteran) Vehicle, a
collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko; a pavilion developed with
Stelarc; a contemporary redesign of Archigram member David Greene's
seminal Living Pod Project; and Memory Cloud, Minimaforms' critically
acclaimed light installation in London's Trafalgar Square.

Memory Cloud, named one of the top ten public art projects by the Daily
Telegraph, was a transient light environment that transformed Trafalgar
Square over three nights in October 2008. Based on one of the oldest
forms of visual communication - smoke signals - Memory Cloud invited the
public to participate by sending text messages that were grafted onto
plumes of smoke.

The (War Veteran) Vehicle is a mobile environment that becomes a
communication vehicle, projecting the testimonies of the veterans who
engage with it. The vehicle creates a public space of conversation as it
'opens up' its shielded envelope to stimulate engagement between the
veteran and the immediate public.

A full-colour publication documenting the projects will be launched at
the exhibition opening. Also titled Enabling: The Work of Minimaforms,
it includes contributions from Stelarc, David Greene, Krzysztof
Wodiczko, Brett Steele, Bronac Ferran, Andrew Benjamin, Marie-Ange
Brayer and Roger F Malina.